Pak govt bans 11 organisations

Sajjad Hussain

Islamabad, May 12, 2019, 12:30 AMMay 12, 2019, 12:30 AM

UPDATED: May 12, 2019, 12:30 AM

Pakistan government has banned 11 organisations for having links with the proscribed outfits Jaamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), an official statement said Saturday.

The decision to ban these organisations was taken during a
meeting between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Interior Minister Ijaz
Shah on Friday.

After the February 14 Pulwama attack, in which 40 Indian
security personnel were killed by a suicide bomber of the Pakistan-based JeM,
Khan had said Islamabad would not spare any group involved in militancy or
using Pakistani soil for any kind of terror activity against other countries.

Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA),
which works under the Ministry of Interior, announced on its website that seven
groups have been banned for their affiliation with the JuD, which was
proscribed in March by the Pakistan government.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior took the action on the
government’s directive to speed up implementation of the National Action Plan
of 2015 to eliminate militancy and extremism from the country’s soil.

Apart from the seven, Lahore-based Al-Fazal Foundation/Trust
and Al-Easar Foundation were also banned for having links with the FIF, the
NACTA said.

The FIF, like JuD, was also banned in March by the Pakistan
government.

According to the NACTA, Bahawalpur-based Al-Rehmat Trust Organization and Karachi-based Al-Furqan Trust were also banned on Friday for having links with the JeM, which was banned in January 2002. Recently, the government announced to take control of more than 30,000 religious seminaries. PTI

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